NEWS & EVENTS

Apogee View

As we all start the New Year of 2018, I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and were able to welcome in the New Year by making some satellite contacts. AO-91 was very busy as were other satellites. But the big news was the launch of Fox-1D (now AO-92). As the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) celebrates “keeping amateur radio in space” with RadFxSat (Fox-1B / AO-91) already launched, and the recent launch of AO-92 (Fox-1D), we look forward to the upcoming launches of Fox-1Cliff, and RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) by this year’s end. Three of the five CubeSats of the Fox series have now been launched and are operational. I cannot express the gratitude I have for the AMSAT Engineering team in making these accomplishments happen. I also want to acknowledge all the AMSAT members and contributors who helped fund the effort. Read More about “Apogee View”…

About

The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, or AMSAT, is a worldwide group of Amateur Radio Operators (Hams). It was formed in the District of Columbia in 1969 as an educational organization.

For over 48 years AMSAT groups in North America and elsewhere have played a key role in significantly advancing the state of the art in space science, space education, and space technology. The work now being done by AMSAT volunteers throughout the world will continue to have far-reaching, positive effects on the future of both Amateur Radio, as well as other governmental, scientific and commercial activities in the final frontier.

Rarely have a group of “amateur” volunteers managed to do so much…for so many…with so little.

Mission

AMSAT’s goal is to foster Amateur Radio’s participation in space research and communication. The Organization was founded to continue the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR, a west coast USA-based group which built and launched the very first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR, on December 12, 1961, barely four years after the launch of Russia’s first Sputnik.

Today, the “home-brew” flavor of these early Amateur Radio satellites lives on, as most of the hardware and software now flying on even the most advanced AMSAT satellites is still largely the product of volunteer effort and donated resources. Though we are fond of traditions our designs and technology continue to push the outside of the envelope.